From: Eugene Lee <eugenehlee@google.com>
To: elb12345@hotmail.co.uk
Cc: andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@kernel.org,
hramamurthy@google.com, jordanrhee@google.com,
joshwash@google.com, kuba@kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
pabeni@redhat.com, stable@vger.kernel.org,
Eugene Lee <eugenehlee@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] gve: fix out-of-bounds read in gve_get_flow_rule_entry()
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:34:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261021173441.702884-1-eugenehlee@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AS8P251MB0001135AF3233180DC42DCD1C8672@AS8P251MB0001.EURP251.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>
> gve_get_flow_rule_entry() checks the requested location against the
> first and last cached rules, but rules_cache_num can be 0 while
> rules_cache_synced is true: GVE_FLOW_RULE_QUERY_RULES returns the rules
> from the requested location onwards, so a request past the last
> installed rule - or any request when no rules are installed - returns
> zero rules, which the driver accepts and marks as synced.
>
> The next query evaluates rules_cache[*cache_num - 1] with
> *cache_num == 0. The zero-initialised cache does not trip the earlier
> comparison, *cache_num - 1 wraps to 0xFFFFFFFF in u32, and the read
> faults about 352 GiB past the cache. ETHTOOL_GRXCLSRULE needs no
> capability, so an unprivileged user can trigger it:
>
> BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ff240996c4c64fa8
> #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
> RIP: gve_get_flow_rule_entry+0xd4/0x110 [gve]
>
> Treat an empty cache as a cache miss and re-query.
Patch looks great! I had this exact fix queued up internally along with
a regression test after reproducing the crash.
Reviewed-by: Eugene Lee <eugenehlee@google.com>
Tested-by: Eugene Lee <eugenehlee@google.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-21 17:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-20 22:33 Aamir Ahmed
2026-10-21 17:34 ` Eugene Lee [this message]
2026-10-21 17:54 ` Harshitha Ramamurthy
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